I do most of my reading on the subway. I also do most of my music-listening on the subway. This means that most of my reading and music-listening happen together. As a result, sometimes my brain permanently associates certain books with certain albums, such that whenever I listen to that album in the future, I very clearly remember the book.

Now, this isn't weird, its been pretty much proved that your brain remembers things better when you use more than one sense to absorb it. What I'm wondering is who else experiences this, and what book/album associations they've had.

One of my strongest is Coldplay (Parachutes, specifically), and a collection of Lovecraft short stories. It's really eerie.

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

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I relate Twilight (Stephenie Meyer) to Daughtry. I was listening to it over and over as I read it.

I relate the 7th HP book to 3 Doors Down, mostlly Here Without You.

I also relate smells to books and stuff. I relate the smell of baking soda to Kingdom Hearts II. O.o;

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.Wash: If I were unwed, I would take you up in a manly fashion.Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?Wash: 'Cause your pretty.(Wash and Kaylee, Firefly, Heart of Gold)

It's a broken hearts paradeAnd I'm putting my heart out on displayThere's no masqueradeJust a funeral march for love todayThe band strikes up and they're playing a songDressed in black, and we're singing along to theBroken hearts paradeI've never been better then I am today

Yep, happens to me all the damn time. To the point where I found myself humming the melody or tapping out the rhythm of "Schism" when I reread American Gods. I actually really enjoy that particular phenomenon.

"Are you saying," Brine interrupted, "that the human race was created to irritate Satan?""That is correct. Jehovah is infinite in his snottiness."Brine reflected on this for a moment and regretted that he had not become a criminal at an early age. --Practical Demonkeeping

I'm too ADD to have music playing when I read, but I sometimes think of books with the smell of certain foods. I spent quite some time reading Wheel of Time at Chinese buffets.

Music always brings me back to the place when I first really listened to it. NIN and Airborne School, A Perfect Circle and a bus ride... Doesn't work for Tool tho, I think ænima didn't leave my CD player for a solid six months.

I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.

I'm a tad weird. I don't listen to music while I read, but I'll play a soundtrack in the back of my head. It's usually based on mood, sometimes references in the book, like Pixies/Transmet. Sometimes it's just random. These are a couple examples.

Vote Pieces for Pope! She didn't buy me off with the funny hat, I swear!... She made me a cardinal.

Ohh, I agree, I can't read and listen to music. I get into the book or get into the music and I can't do both simultaneously. How can you sing and read at the same time? I certainly can't.

I can't drive without music either. Driving thru the middle of Nevada with my dad was HELL....he was sleeping and I was driving and I thought I was going to go out of my mind with the silence (except his high decibel snoring)!

-Stop using Jesus as an excuse for being a narrow minded bigot.-Music was her life, the lyrics were her story.-Be careful what you say, it may remind me of a song that needs to be sung.-GOT JESUS? I thought you had him....shit!-Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?-My pit bull is my co-pilot.-To err is human; to ARRGGHHH is pirate!-Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?-Well behaved women rarely make history.-Laughter: When a smile has an orgasm-I'm not so good at the advice; can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

As long as it isn't music I'm hearing for the first time, I have no problem reading and listening simultaneously.

True terror lies in the futility of human existence.

Malcolm Reynolds is my co-pilot.

"The only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." - John Stuart Mill

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

Capellini wrote:As long as it isn't music I'm hearing for the first time, I have no problem reading and listening simultaneously.

Bingo. And for me, listening to music I know very well (even very loudly) helps me concentrate, especially when there is other noise at the same time. When I was living in London, all reading I did required headphones... just too much background noise to concentrate otherwise. Except the British Library... that place is deathly silent... so silent it was almost distracting in itself.

"Are you saying," Brine interrupted, "that the human race was created to irritate Satan?""That is correct. Jehovah is infinite in his snottiness."Brine reflected on this for a moment and regretted that he had not become a criminal at an early age. --Practical Demonkeeping

Capellini wrote:As long as it isn't music I'm hearing for the first time, I have no problem reading and listening simultaneously.

Bingo. And for me, listening to music I know very well (even very loudly) helps me concentrate, especially when there is other noise at the same time. When I was living in London, all reading I did required headphones... just too much background noise to concentrate otherwise. Except the British Library... that place is deathly silent... so silent it was almost distracting in itself.

Totally agreed. I do my algebra homework to Nickelback and get A's on every paper. Rock and Metal in particular seem to help me concentrate better.

xD I remembered another one.

Marilyn Manson - Jurassic Park

WHY him? I was in Florida at the time and all that was really playing on the hard rock station that I liked was Manson, but I kinda like him, besides his obsession with Satan and stuff...

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.Wash: If I were unwed, I would take you up in a manly fashion.Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?Wash: 'Cause your pretty.(Wash and Kaylee, Firefly, Heart of Gold)

It's a broken hearts paradeAnd I'm putting my heart out on displayThere's no masqueradeJust a funeral march for love todayThe band strikes up and they're playing a songDressed in black, and we're singing along to theBroken hearts paradeI've never been better then I am today

The thin line between genius and insanity is less of a border than a union.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish."--Pope John Paul II

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-Albert Einstein

I agree, Rainswept. I think that's what I was trying to say in my post. My brain only wants to concentrate on one at a time. I can read, say a People or an US with music or the TV on, but a book, I want to get into and I don't need or WANT any other distractions.

-Stop using Jesus as an excuse for being a narrow minded bigot.-Music was her life, the lyrics were her story.-Be careful what you say, it may remind me of a song that needs to be sung.-GOT JESUS? I thought you had him....shit!-Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?-My pit bull is my co-pilot.-To err is human; to ARRGGHHH is pirate!-Why do we kill people who kill people to show people that killing people is wrong?-Well behaved women rarely make history.-Laughter: When a smile has an orgasm-I'm not so good at the advice; can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?